By the end of his nine-year run as Michigan ’s football coach, Jim Harbaugh had transformed his alma mater into one of the top programs nationally, fulfilling the high expectations that greeted him when he was hired in December 2014.

In each of Harbaugh’s final three seasons, the Wolverines won the Big Ten and made the College Football Playoff. They ended an agonizingly long losing streak to rival Ohio State, beating the Buckeyes in each of Harbaugh’s final three years in Ann Arbor. In what would be his final act as Michigan’s coach, Harbaugh helped lead the Wolverines to the College Football Playoff national championship at the end of the 2023 season, giving Michigan its first national title since 1997.

At a certain point, though, Harbaugh’s Wolverines found themselves in the he

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